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MacNew
language Validation

The MacNew language validation studies reflect the careful measurement development required for meaningful international research and clinical use. Translating and culturally adapting a patient-reported outcome measure is not simply a linguistic exercise: it requires rigorous testing of validity, reliability, responsiveness, dimensional structure, and patient acceptability across languages, diagnoses, and healthcare contexts. The studies listed here demonstrate a sustained commitment to psychometric excellence and scientific comparability, ensuring that the MacNew can be used with confidence in diverse populations while preserving the conceptual integrity of its emotional, physical, social, and global health-related quality-of-life domains. This dedication to methodological quality is central to the MacNew’s role as a robust, internationally applicable instrument for assessing the lived impact of heart disease and its treatment.

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This section contains peer-reviewed papers addressing the psychometric properties of the MacNew language versions.


Brazilian

Chinese

Danish

Dutch

English (US, Australia)

Farsi (Iran) – Persian

Flemish

French

German

Hebrew 

Hungarian

  • Bakai J, Höfer S, Oldridge N. Lukács M
    MacNew Heart Disease Health-related Quality of Life kérdoív magyarországi validálása.
    Kardiovaskuláris prevenció és rehabilitáció 2011 4(1) 13-20.

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Sinhalese

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian